Who We Are

Volunteer-led, volunteer-driven. The BTS Administrative Committee meet to share ideas for Society growth.

With discounts to conferences, tutorials and Chapter workshops, membership in BTS is your ticket to effective use of your professional development resources.

BTS has active and enthusiastic volunteers from all over the globe.

BTS publishes the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, with Special Issues on cutting edge technologies, and the BTS Newsletter, both included are in your membership

BTS has over 2,000 members worldwide, and include students and young professionals. GOLD Networking events are held around the globe.

Each year the BTS awards program recognizes the outstanding work of our members around the globe.

As one of the Partners of IBC, the International Broadcasting Convention, BTS has a large and busy presence.

News and Announcements

Annual Broadcast Symposium is moving!!! Co-chair David Layer, announced that in 2013 the Symposium would be relocating from its long-time home in the Washington, D.C. area to San Diego, Calif. Layer also said that the 2014 event would be held in San Antonio, Texas. The Symposium originated in Washington, D.C. more than 60 years ago.

The IEEE Annual Broadcast Symposium held on 17 - 19 October 2012 was a big success! If you didn't get there in person this year, you will soon be able to purchase the full Symposium content on demand from the archives of our virtual streamed version.

Visit the Symposium website to learn more!

IEEE BTS included in IEEE Societies and Communities Blog: FoBtv sites.ieee.org/societies/2012/04/02/ieee-broadcast-technology-society-signs-future-of-broadcast-television-summit-joint-declaration/

The Summer 2011 issue of the BTS Newsletter is now available!

Featured Programs

Multimedia Symposium
Broadcast Symposium
Distinguished Lecturers
Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD)

2013 IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB)

4-7 June 2013

West London, United Kingdom

Call for papers

Welcome to the 2012 IEEE Broadcast Symposium!

For the second year, the 2012 IEEE Broadcast Symposium has been made accessible by archived web streaming. Visit the link below to obtain additional information. The annual 2012 IEEE Broadcast Symposium is one of the world’s preeminent technical conferences on broadcasting technology. The 2012 IEEE Broadcast Symposium this year offered attendees an exciting, timely, and informative three-day program with tutorials, followed by technical sessions. Broadcast engineering experts from around the world presented at the Symposium.

The exceptional technical program, combined with the opportunity to network with other broadcast engineers from around the U.S. and around the world, make the 2012 IEEE Broadcast Symposium a ”don’t miss” event

Please visit :bts.ieee.org/broadcastsymposium/virtual

Please welcome the new Distinguished Lectuers for 2013:

Guy Bouchard: CBC/Radio Canada

Tim Carroll: Linear Acoustic

Pat Waddell: Harmonic

The BTS Distinguished Lecturer Program exists for the purpose of providing BTS Chapters with a list of quality lecturers who can potentially give talks at local chapter meetings. The program provides a means and support for chapters to have access to individuals who are well-known educators and authors in the fields of broadcast technology to lecture at Chapter meetings. Learn more about the program.

The BTS IEEE GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade) program:

helps students transition to young professionals within the larger BTS -IEEE community,
provides opportunities for members to grow their technical and non-technical skills,
provides opportunities for leadership, and
creates your own engineering network within BTS and IEEE.

Learn more about the GOLD program, GOLD events, and the GOLD Committee.

From the BTS Video Library

IBC News provided highlights of the 2008 International Broadcast Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam. Coverage includes interviews with industry leaders and key exhibits as well as special events. IBC 2008 is co-sponsored by the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.

View more video coverage of IBC on IEEE.tv.